Teppo Felin Professor | University of Oxford Director | Oxford Diploma in Strategy & Innovation  twitter @teppofelin  Photo taken in Copenhagen, 2010 EDITORIAL ACTIVITY ` Academy of Management Review, Editorial Board [2011-present] ` Academy of Managem ent Annals, Associate Editor [2016-2019] ` California Management Review, Editorial Board ` Academy of Management Perspectives, E ditorial Board [2016-present] ` Co-edited special issues of Organization Science, Managerial and Decision Economics, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, etc ` Strategic Organization, Co-Editor [2013-2016] ` Journal of Management, Editorial Board [2013-present] | PUBLICATIONS Felin T & Kauffman S (2020). The search function and evolutionary novelty. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. [html] Felin T, Gambardella A, Stern S & Zenger T (2020). Lean startup and the business model: Experimentation revisited. Felin T & Zenger T (2020). Open innovation: A theory-based view. Strategic Management Review. Felin T, Felin M, Koenderink J & Krueger J (2019). On surprise-hacking. Perception. [open access pdf]
 Felin T & Felin M (2019). Seeking rationality: $500 bills and perceptual obviousness. Handbook on Bounded Rationality.
Felin T & Foss N (2019). Microfoundations for institutional theory? Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Chater N, Felin T, Funder D, Gigerenzer G, Koenderink J, Krueger J, Noble D, Nordli S, Oaksford M, Schwartz B, Stanovich K & Todd P (2018). Mind, rationality and cognition: An interdisciplinary debate. Psych Bulletin & Review. Felin T & Lakhani K (2018). What problems will you solve with blockchain? MIT Sloan Management Review. [pdf]  Felin T, Koenderink J & Krueger J (2017). Rationality, perception, and the all-seeing eye. Psych  Devins C, Felin T, Kauffman S & Koppl R (2017). The law and big data. Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy. [html] Felin T & Zenger T (2017). What sets breakthrough strategies apart. MIT Sloan Management Review. Hallberg N & Felin T (2018). Untangling infinite regress and the origins of capability. Journal of Management Inquiry. Felin T & Zenger T (2016). Strategy, problems and a theory for the firm. Organization Science.  Felin T, Kauffman S, Mastrogiorgio A & Mastrogiorgio M (2016). Factor markets, actors and affordances. Industrial & Corporate Change. [html] Felin T (2016). When strategy walks out the door. MIT Sloan Management Review. [html] Felin T & Powell T (2016). Designing organizations for dynamic capabilities. California Management Review. [html] Stirling W & Felin T (2016). Satisficing, preferences and social interaction: A new perspective. Theory & Decision. [html] Devins C, Koppl R, Kauffman S & Felin T (2016). Still against design: A response to Steven Calabresi, Sanford Levinson and Vernon Smith. Arizona State Law Journal. [pdf] David R, Felin T, Langley A, Rowley T, Verona G. (2016). The strategic organization of strategic management scholarship. Strategic Organization. Koppl R, Kauffman S, Felin T & Longo G (2015b). Economics for a creative world: A response to comments. Journal of Institutional Economics. Koppl R, Kauffman S, Felin T & Longo G (2015a). Economics for a creative world. Journal of Institutional Economics.
Devins C, Koppl R, Kauffman S & Felin T (2015). Against design. 
Felin T, Kauffman S, Koppl R & Longo G (2014). Economic opportunity and evolution: Beyond landscapes and bounded rationality. Strategic  Abell P, Felin T & Foss N (2014). Microfoundations of Social Theory: A Response to Jepperson and Meyer. Sociologica. [html] Felin T & Zenger T (2014). Closed or open innovation? Problem solving and the governance choice. Research Policy. [open access] [pdf]  Barney J & Felin T (2013). What are microfoundations? Academy of Management Perspectives. [pdf] Argyres N, Felin T, Foss N & Zenger T (2012). Organizational economics of capability and heterogeneity. Organization Science. [html] Felin T (2012). Cosmologies of capability, markets and wisdom of crowds. Managerial & Decision Economics. [html]
Felin T & Foss N (2012). The (proper) microfoundations of routines and capabilities: a response to Winter, Pentland, Hodgson and Knudsen. Journal of Institutional Economics. [pdf] Felin T, Zenger T & Tomsik J (2009). The knowledge economy: emerging organizational forms, missing microfoundations and key considerations for managing human capital. Human Resource Management. Abell P, Felin T & Foss N (2008). Building microfoundations for the routines, capabilities, and performance links. Managerial & Decision Economics. [pdf] [html] Felin T & Hesterly W (2007). The knowledge-based view, nested heterogeneity, and new value creation: philosophical considerations on the locus of knowledge. Academy of Management Review. [pdf] [html] Felin T & Foss N (2006). Individuals and organizations: thoughts on a microfoundations project for strategic management and organizational analysis. Research Methodology in Strategy and Management. Felin T & Foss N (2005). Strategic organization: a field in search of micro-foundations. Strategic Organization. [pdf]
| MISCELLANEOUS Aug 2019: celebration of Stuart Kauffman's work, Santa Fe Institute [html] - giving a talk titled "Mind and Economy" 2019-2024 industrial strategy research project (EPSRC-funded) led by Julian Allwood and University of Cambridge Engineering [html] Strategy: A Very Short Introduction book under contract with Oxford University Press The Fallacy of Obviousness | Aeon  Aug 2019: Academy of Management, Boston May 2019: London50 conference - debate about the value of ecosystems with Gary Dushnitsky March 2019: Utah Winter Strategy Conference [html] - "state of field" panel presentation with Jay Barney and Joanne Oxley Oct 2018: open innovation conference, UC Berkeley Jan 2019: strategy for startups and SMEs, Strategy Insight Lab project [html] - with Arnaldo Camuffo, Alfonso Gambardella, Elena Novelli, Chiara Spina I collect Finnish Modern Art - here's a piece I recently bought, by Carl Wargh (1968) "Seashore I"  EconTalk podcast with Russ Roberts (Hoover, Stanford Univ): Blindness, rationality, and  Sept 2018: SMS workshop on behavioral strategy and microfoundations June 2018: Strategy Science conference at Wharton, UPenn [html] - panel with Arnaldo Camuffo, Alfonso Gambardella, Todd Zenger and Scott Stern BBC interview related to big data, artificial intelligence and the fallacy of obviousness [html]  a few items from the past: PLOS ONE piece [html] and special issue with fantastic contributors [html]  interview with Geoff Mulgan at the Oxford Literary Festival: book Big Mind (Princeton U Press) [html]  PUBLICATIONS Felin T (2015). A forum on minds and institutions. Journal of Institutional Economics. [html]
Felin T (2015). Valve Corporation: Strategy tipping points and thresholds. Journal of Organization Design. [html]
Stirling W & Felin T (2013). Game theory, conditional preferences and social influence. PLoS ONE. [html]  Felin T & Knudsen T (2012). A theory of nascent entrepreneurship and organization. Managerial & Decision Economics. [pdf] [html] Felin T, Foss N, Heimeriks K & Madsen T (2012). Microfoundations of routines and capabilities: individuals, processes and structures. Journal of Management Studies. Stirling W, Giraud-Carrier C & Felin T (2012). A framework for the design and synthesis of coordinated social systems. Social Informatics. Felin T & Foss N (2011). The endogenous origins of experience, routines and organizational capabilities: the poverty of stimulus. Journal of Institutional Economics. [pdf] [html]
 Felin T & Zenger T (2011). Information aggregation, matching, and radical market-hierarchy hybrids. Strategic Organization. Zenger T, Felin T & Bigelow L (2011). Theories of the firm-market boundary. Academy of Management Annals. [html] [pdf] Abell P, Felin T & Foss N (2010). Causal and constitutive relations and the squaring of coleman's diagram: reply to Vromen Erkenntnis. [html] [pdf]  Felin T & Foss N (2009). Social reality, the boundaries of self-fulfilling prophecy, and economics. Organization Science. [pdf] [html] response by Ferraro, Pfeffer & Sutton. How and why theories matter: a comment on Felin and Foss [see here]; editor introduction [see here] Felin T & Foss N (2009). Organizational routines and capabilities: Historical drift and a course-correction toward microfoundations. Scandinavian Journal of Management. [html] King B, Felin T & Whetten D (2009). Comparative organizational analysis. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. [pdf] review of volume by P Foreman in Administrative Science Quarterly (2010)Felin T & Spender JC (2009). An exchange of ideas about knowledge governance: seeking first principles and microfoundations. In Knowledge Governance, edited by Foss et al. Oxford University Press. |
